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On this week’s show, we talk to graphic novelist Isabel Greenberg about her comic Glass Town and the 2020 longlist for the International Booker prize... 
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This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, author of one of the best-loved and most frequently illustrated books in the history of literature — Don Quixote. Rachel Schmidt explores how the varying approaches to illustrating the tale have reflected and impacted its reading through the centuries.
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Jane Eyre, 1984 and Anne Frank's diary all make it onto the author's list. On Black Beauty's underrated importance: 'People forget that William Wilberforce, who abolished the slave trade, also founded the RSPCA.'
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Amanda Craig is the author of six novels, including the recently published Hearts and Minds. Often compared to Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray and Balzac, she writes interlinked novels about modern life, which combine satire, social comedy, romance and serious issues such as immigration, creativity and murder. Formerly an award-winning journalist, she is currently children's books critic of The Times.
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The professor of English literature tells us about his favourite novels in a golden era for fiction, and the dilemma, still with us today, that led Dickens to write two different endings for Great Expectations
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